RE: 7.1Hz, how the heck did Tesla succeed?

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "David Thomson" <dwt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have been researching this for several years.  It appears to me that
> Tesla needed the huge topload to hold a very large quantity of
> electrons.  First he would build up resonance within the tower such that
> a huge electrostatic potential appeared on the topload, but did not leak
> out with streamers.  Once the electrostatic charge was developed it, he
> would detune the system such that the electrostatic charge would bounce
> between ground and the topload at 8cps.

I don't think the physics works like that.  If you periodically detune a
magnifier's extra coil, then the high voltage output simply changes
frequency, and you have a high freq output with an FM modulation.  Why
would adding an 8Hz modulation to the ?40KHz? inject any energy
into the ionospheric cavity?  Supposedly the 40KHz itself won't make it
around the Earth, and FM modulation doesn't change this.

I think you're basically talking about a method of switching a TC's high
voltage output in order to create a repeating sequence of large DC pulses.
We can't do this by changing the extra coil frequency by a small amount.
And if we change the coil frequency by a large amount, the coil would just
act like a shorting bar, and the high freq output would simply vanish
periodically (it would be AM modulated.)

What's needed is a way to suddenly disconnect the extra coil from the
topload.  But the hundreds of megavolts would jump right across any
known switching component that tried to do perform the disconnect.  I'm
proposing that the switching component was the UV light bank (or perhaps
x-ray tube bank?)


>  Just like a plunger moving up and down in water, the
> electrostatic charge would move up and down in the Earth's
> electrostatic field.  Once the Earth's electrostatic field was in
> resonance to the oscillator, it would require very little
> additional energy to keep the resonator in operation.
>
> I have found that a combination flat spiral and tall solenoid
> secondary coil is particularly effective for Tesla's Wardencliffe
> design.  I have built scale models of these combination coils.
> http://www.tesla-coil-builder.com/FlatSpiralSolenoidCombo.htm
> http://www.tesla-coil-builder.com/tesla_magnifier_1.htm
>
> Dave



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